Water on an Alaska Airways flight from Hawaii to Alaska entered the cabin from a flooded lavatory, crew tried to mop it up. (Credit score: Dustin Parker/Fb)
4 Alaska Airways flight attendants have been despatched to the hospital after reporting feeling unwell, inflicting a flight diversion.
Alaska Airways Flight 810 was headed from Lihue (Kauai), Hawaii, to Seattle on Thursday night time. As an alternative, it landed in Honolulu about an hour and a half after takeoff, based on flight monitoring web site FlightAware.
Crews reported changing into sick after an unidentifiable odor was detected within the cabin, based on USA TODAY.
Whereas the airline has not but responded to a FOX Enterprise inquiry, it instructed FOX 13 Seattle that 119 company and 6 crew members had been on the flight.
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An Alaska Airways Boeing 737-900ER plane on the tarmac at Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport in Seattle on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (David Ryder/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
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Not one of the pilots or company on board required medical consideration, based on FOX 13. All company have been supplied new lodging by the airline on different flights to Seattle.
The aircraft, a Boeing 737-800 based on FlightAware, was flown with out passengers again to Seattle for additional inspection.
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Individuals sit within the central terminal searching towards Alaska Airline planes at Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport on June 19, 2024 in Seattle. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
It isn’t identified what the odor was that was detected, nor what the flight attendants’ situations have been after being evaluated at a hospital.
An Alaska Airways Boeing 737-900ER plane on the tarmac at Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport in Seattle on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. ( David Ryder/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
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Alaska Airways is within the strategy of making an attempt to merge with Hawaiian Airways. The corporate made headlines earlier this yr when a Boeing 737-9 MAX door plug blowout occurred throughout certainly one of their flights in January.
Earlier this summer season, Boeing was rebuked by the NTSB for sharing particulars in regards to the investigation into the matter throughout a media briefing by Elizabeth Lund, senior vice chairman of high quality for Boeing industrial airplanes. She can also be chair of the Enterprise High quality Operations Council.
